6 Different Ways to Bypass The Paywall And Access Articles on NYTimes.com

From Monday 28 March 2011, popular print and online news organisation The New York Times has implemented a paywall. What this means is that the average non-paying user will only be able to view 20 articles a month on the NYTimes.com website. However, there are a number of ways of circumventing this limitation, some have been condoned by the Times while the legality of others remains murky at best. In this article I will outline all the methods of viewing articles on the NYTimes.com website.

1. Pay the Subscription Fee

If you wish to access the NYTimes website by paying the subscription fee, your options are as follows:

$15 for four weeks of access to NYTimes.com and a mobile phone app.

$20 for four weeks of access to NYTimes.com and its iPad app.

$35 for four weeks of access to all of the above.

If you are a print subscriber, you will have access to the Times’ digital content at no extra charge.

Finally, if you would like to try out the service within the first four weeks, it will only cost $0.99.

2. Buy A Kindle

Subscribers to the Kindle version of the Times will also be able to get unlimited access to the online content on NYTimes.com

4. Google Chrome Extension

This is a small extension that installs in your Chrome browser and automatically removes the paywall any time you visit an article on NYTimes. If you are not a Chrome user, you will not be able to use this extension, but I am confident that there will be other similar extensions (or scripts) available for your browser of choice.

Conclusion

With so many holes in the Times’ paywall, it makes you wonder whether they are actually serious about this new venture. Anyway, let us know which method of accessing the NYTimes.com website you are using.

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3 comments

Chris Finksays

bookmarklet works great for me on Firefox! what a fail! they spent $40 million on this paywall?! wow… y didn’t they just do a poll on the ways they could waste a pile of cash?? supposedly this will make them money?! #epicfail